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What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?
Reuven Tsur
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Paperback. Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. This title investigates the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists. Series: Sound & Meaning; the Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics. Num Pages: 188 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are Reuven Tsur’s point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of great concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists.
Research in recent decades has established two distinct types of aural perception: a nonspeech mode, in which the acoustic signals are received in the manner of musical sounds or natural noises; and a speech mode, in which acoustic signals ... Read more
Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are Reuven Tsur’s point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of great concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists.
Research in recent decades has established two distinct types of aural perception: a nonspeech mode, in which the acoustic signals are received in the manner of musical sounds or natural noises; and a speech mode, in which acoustic signals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Sound & Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics
Condition
New
Weight
284g
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822311706
SKU
V9780822311706
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Reviews for What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?
"[This] study manages to bring an interdisciplinary breadth and rhetorical clarity to some of the mysteries surrounding the emotional and perceptual coloring of poetic sound-symbolism." Virginia Quarterly Review